METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW JERSEY

Published: June 26, 1998

NEW BRUNSWICK—
A 22-year-old Vineland man who dropped out of Rutgers University in April was arrested Wednesday on a charge of growing marijuana in a fraternity house on campus, the university police said yesterday.

The man, Timothy Becker, a sophomore before he quit school, was arrested in Vineland at the William Consolo Produce Auction, where he worked, said Detective John O'Neal, a spokesmen for the Rutgers University Police Department. Mr. Becker has been charged with manufacturing and cultivating marijuana, a crime punishable by a maximum of 18 months in jail, and was released on $1,000 bail.

The 30 marijuana plants were discovered last Friday by firefighters responding to a small fire at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house.